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Originally Posted by qwerty68
Supplements certainly are an industry. They even own collectively, lobbying organizations that fight to keep them unregulated. It is one of their biggest lies. Believing supplement companies blindly is as foolish as trusting big pharma or oil companies.
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True that they do have professional organizations that lobby. As for fighting to stay unregulated, what evidence do you have for that? And perhaps what they are fighting for is to keep the corrupt FDA out of their business, which would be entirely justified. Many of the best supp companies use 3rd party testing to validate purity and potency.
As for lobbying power, according to OpenSecrets.org, lobby expenditure in the US is as follows for 2015:
Nutritional & dietary supplements $3 million
Pharma $147 million
That's a 50-fold difference.